Track Insight / Lyrics
I swipe my card and watch the gate
Another shift, another late
The rain comes down in silver sheets
A flooded world beneath my feet
I see the laundromat's glow
The only place I've come to know
I was a runaway at seventeen
A camera and a broken dream
I rode the buses through the night
And caught the world in borrowed light
The spin cycle hummed a drone
A place to wait, a place to phone
Meet me where the dryers spin
Where the rain-soaked strangers wander in
We don't speak and we don't ask why
Just watch the storm roll through the sky
Meet me where the dryers spin
The only place that lets us in
You fold your uniform so neat
The fluorescent hums a beat
I count the raindrops on the pane
A quarter moon, a coffee stain
We trade a glance, a quiet nod
Two passing ships on rainy sod
Meet me where the dryers spin
Where the rain-soaked strangers wander in
We don't speak and we don't ask why
Just watch the storm roll through the sky
Meet me where the dryers spin
The only place that lets us in
The toll booth lights are burning low
I watch the silver sedans go
But I'll be back when shift is through
To fold the night away with you
The camera in my pocket's cracked
But every frame I've ever snapped
Is taped inside this plastic case
A map of every leaving place
And yours are pinned beside the door
A hundred nights and maybe more
So let the highway wash away
The fares I took, the words I'd say
The spin cycle will hold us tight
A lighthouse in the flooded night
Two quiet hearts in washed-out jeans
The only peace this city means
Meet me where the dryers spin
Where the rain-soaked strangers wander in
We don't speak and we don't ask why
Just watch the storm roll through the sky
Meet me where the dryers spin
The only place that lets us in
Meet me where the dryers spin
Let the rain soak through my skin
